Richard Emmett directs programming at The Blue Ridge Music Center in Virginia. The Quebe Sisters of Texas present swing fiddle tunes and triple-harmony singing at the Blue Ridge Music Center this season.

Paul Brown (Richard Emmett) & Stewart Cohen (Quebe Sisters)

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This week we hear some classic Blue Ridge mountain music, piedmont blues, and even some swing from the Quebe Sisters of Texas, who will perform at the Blue Ridge Music Center this season. Plus, what’s it like to present southern roots music in its home territory these days? Richard Emmett, who directs programming for the Blue Ridge Music Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway in southwestern Virginia, joins host Paul Brown for a conversation about that. They discuss how the scene has changed over the years, where it’s going, and the decisions Emmett makes to simultaneously keep BRMC programming connected to tradition and draw audience interested in some of the newer sounds in roots music.

Episode 66 Playlist

Charmin' Betsy
Lee Sexton
Whoa Mule

Big Eyed Rabbit
Kyle Creed & Fred Cockerham
Clawhammer Banjo Vol. 1

Wagoner's Lad
Sheila Kay Adams
All The Other Fine Things

Round My Back Door Selling Coal
Etta Baker
One-Dime Blues

A Lot Of Them Blues
John Cephas & Phil Wiggins
Homemade

Sitting On Top Of The World
Nashville Bluegrass Band
Twenty Year Blues

Lost John
Slate Mountain Ramblers
Family Tradition

Break 1 - John Hardy
Glen Smith
Clawhammer Banjo Vol. 3

Liza Jane
Crooked Road Ramblers
It Ain't City Music

Interview: Richard Emmett
ATBR recording

It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
Quebe Sisters
Every Which-A-Way

Don't You Let That Music Die
Phil Wiggins & The Chesapeake Shieks
No Fools No Fun